Why Blacks Don't Have Game And How We Get To Play

About the Book

This handbook for young African Americans is intended to give them a feeling of self-worth by chronicling many of the contributions of African Americans to American history and to the American way of life in an easy-to-read format. The history of blacks in America has been badly distorted by the motion picture industry and textbooks. Newspapers generally print most of the bad news about blacks and often under-report positive news. This negative information adds to the anger that many young blacks harbor due to their economic plight, and feeds the feeling of hopelessness that they perceive as their future. This book lets them know that they deserve more, based upon their forefathersÕ contributions to America in war and peace and their inherent ability. It then attempts to guide them into a better economic way of life through understandable steps that are attainable. It stresses education as a basic tool for advancement as well as a reparations goal. It then goes through economic steps that can start to decrease the un-American economic gap that should not exist. Its main theme is that they are the progeny of forefathers who have accomplished a great deal, and they owe it to their forefathers to live up to that heritage.

About the Author

World War II 92nd Infantry (Black Buffalo) Division veteran Lyle A. Marshall is a retired accountant, Internal Revenue Agent  and Executive, tax attorney and businessman. He was the senior partner in the law firms of Marshall and MacDevitt, and Marshall, Lifschitz, Israel and Gitomer in Manhasset and Rockefeller Center, New York. He also was an Adjunct Asst. Professor of taxation at Pace College and Wagner College in New York. Most of his adult life was spent espousing minority economic development activities, including monitoring the Ford Foundation’s Program Related Investment committee and co-chairing New York’s Interracial Council for Business Opportunity. He was a co-founder of Ebony Oil Corp. in New York, a pioneer black owned fuel oil company, and of Drummond Distributing Co. in Compton, CA., the first black owned Seagram liquor distributor. He served as the unpaid president of the board of the Watts/Willowbrook Boys & Girls Club, during which time $7.3 Million was raised to build a new clubhouse for the children of Watts and Compton, CA. It is for young adults similar to those in that club for whom he wrote this handbook. He has a Bachelor of Business Administration Degree from the City College of New York  and a Juris Doctor Degree from New York Law School.